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Coast Southwest is a leading full-service, chemical distribution and ingredient technology company. From six strategic locations, we serve manufacturers and formulators for personal care and household products throughout the United States with high-quality functional ingredients, on-time deliveries, and exceptional customer service.

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Coast Southwest was incorporated in 1985 in Placentia, CA as a regional distributor. Today the company serves customers across the U.S. and has expanded operations to six locations, including an innovation center for research and development in Arlington, TX.

Coast Southwest sponsors the California YBTC! Program, which enhances K-8 science education by introducing the science of chemistry as it relates to our everyday lives. The capstone of the program is the annual California YBTC Challenge.

We provide a wide range of preservative systems and solutions, from classic preservation to contemporary and custom solutions, specifically designed and refined to meet the ever-changing needs of today’s personal care market.

Oleochemicals

We offer a vast array of basic oleochemical products from the foremost producers around the world.

Coast Southwest provides sample formulas that chemists can use to develop a variety of applications, from leading- edge products that use the latest in ingredients and technologies to economy products for the mass market.

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Kevin Kirk Moves to our Arizona Office

We are pleased to announce that Kevin Kirk has just transferred from Placentia, CA to our Phoenix, AZ office, in order to apply his deep experience and proven commitment to the job of serving Coast Southwest’s customers in that market.

As Regional Sales Manager, Kevin is uniquely equipped to provide that level of engagement and support. Since joining the Coast Southwest team in September, 2008, he has been recognized as our Salesman of the Year no less than three times, thanks to his expertise in helping our customers make use of our full range of capabilities.

As a leader in our Phoenix territory, he’ll be leveraging his talents in order to continue our ongoing mission of serving that market and our customers in the best ways possible.

Phoenix is poised for growth, with a diversity of customer needs in various segments, and Coast Southwest has the slate of services and products to meet them thanks to our full-service presence there. With his proven formal and informal leadership skills and an unerring focus on customer needs, Kevin is exactly the right person in the right place at the right time to help our customers in that region grow their business, now and into the future.

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Coast Southwest, Inc. is a full-service, chemical distributor. We represent many of the world’s finest manufacturers and supply hundreds of ingredients to manufacturers and formulators across the United States.